Determining the need for vocational counselling among different target groups of young people under 28 years of age in the European Community

Cedefop — European Centre For The Development Of Vocational Training

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Young Europeans and vocational counselling: What do which young people need and want?
Vocational training
Education policy

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• Vocational education

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• Publié par: CEDEFOP-EUROPEAN-CENTRE-FOR-THE-DEVELOPMENT-OF-VOCATIONAL-TRAINING
• Nombre de lectures: 15
• Langue: English
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Young Europeans and vocational
counselling: what do which young
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Lynne Chisholm
April 1994
Edited by:
CEDEFOP - European Centre for the
Development of Vocational Training
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The Centre was established by Regulation
(EEC) No 337/75 of the Council of the
European Communities, last amended by
Council Regulation (EC) No 251/95 of
6 February 1995 and Council Regulation
(EC) No 354/95 of 20 February 1995.
Synthesis report Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
CEDEFOP - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 1994
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
Printed in Germany Contents
Preface by CEDEFOP V
0 Preface 1
1 Summary 3
2 Introduction 15
2.1 The project brief in policy context
2.2 Project scope and limitations 23
2.3 National report profiles and concerns: overview 26
3 Youth, social change and the role of vocational counselling 3
3.1 Youth transitions and social change in Europe 35
3.2 Trends and diversities across Europe: Examples 42
3.3 Needs, demands and vocational counselling 53 I I
4 Vocational counselling and guidance practices: problematic aspects 62
4.1 The 'academic' versus the 'vocational': a problematic dividing line 62
4.2 Gaps and weaknesses in counselling services 66
4.3 Mismatch between provision patterns and lifeworlds 70
4.4 Young people and un/employment: 73
vocational counselling is not the solution
5 Young people's situations, needs and demands:8
the target groups as exemplars
5.1 Ordinary kids': 80
young people on secondary level technical/ vocational courses
5.2 Young workers3
5.3 Young people in declining industrial and isolated rural regions 85
5.4 'Problem youth' 90
5.5 Minority and migrant youth6
5.6 Girls and young women9
5.7 Young people and mobility 104 II I
6 Conclusions and recommendations 108
6.1 National reports's9
6.2 Synthesis report conclusions 121
References 127
Annex: Target groups 132 Preface by CEDEFOP
In developing the careers of young people and integrating them into working life, career
guidance is becoming increasingly important. Persistent, structurally-caused unemployment,
higher qualification requirements, complex training paths with eased transition between initial
and continuing training, the increasing deregulation of the labour market and the emergence
of new values and life styles among young people present career guidance services, as the
instrument for regulating supply and demand on training, education and labour markets, with
fundamental and complex tasks. At the same time, European integration poses new challenges
to the career guidance services in the Member States. The PETRA 3 programme has taken
an initial step in this direction through setting up European-oriented national resource centres,
through organizing transitional continuing training courses for occupational guidance
counsellors and publishing the "European Manual for Occupational Guidance Counsellors".
The comparative studies' carried out by CEDEFOP and Task Force: Human Resources,
Education, Training and Youth to support and monitor work in this field have increased
transparency in national occupational guidance systems and qualification structures.
The activities and research work carried out aimed primarily to make proposals or provide
support for improving occupational guidance activities, to focus such work in a European
context on the basis of existing national structures. Counselling requirements were deduced
from existing or forecasted demand (enquiries at guidance services) or from general data
derived from labour market and occupational research.
To date the needs of various target groups of young people based on their economic and
social and cultural situation, their values, their career plans, their conception of the efficiency
of occupational guidance offers etc. have not been taken into account.
This issue was examined in the project "Determination of (occupational) guidance needs for
various groups of young people under 28 years of age in the European Union", carried out
between March 1993 and May 1994, the results of which are now available (12 national
reports, in the original language and English, partly in French, the synthesis report in English,
French, German, Italian and Spanish).
A total of 21 target groups were examined; nine of the reports examined two of the groups
and three reports examined one target group. Particular attention was devoted to young people
at a particular disadvantage who had no or inadequate access to occupational guidance
services. The target groups selected are listed in the appendices of the 12 national reports and
the synthesis report as the aims and findings of the project - as stressed in the synthesis report
- can only be viewed in the context of the interrelationships between the various elements.
The national reports have been published in separate editions as certain readers are interested
Occupational profiles and training in occupational guidance counselling, CEDEFOP, 1992. 12 national studies and
synthesis report.
Educational and vocational guidance services for youth and young adults in the EC, European Commission, 1993, 12
national reports and synthesis report. As a supplement:
EUROCOUNSEL, Counselling and long-term unemployment, European Foundation for the Improvement of Living
and Working Conditions. Dublin, 1992-1993, 6 national studies and synthesis report. VI
in specific target groups whose problems in finding training and work have supra-national
features which are characteristic of other target groups which we selected.
This project was commissioned by Task Force: Human Resources, Education, Training and
Youth as part of the PETRA 3 programme aiming to produce indicators for differentiated and
demand-oriented occupational guidance practices and to create more offensive planning
strategies to reach as far as possible those target groups which were excluded from guidance
counselling for the reasons contained in the reports. New proposals are being formulated at
present to prepare the gradual transition to the "LEONARDO DA VINCI Programme".
Enrique Retuerto de la Torre Gesa Chômé
Deputy Director Projectcoördinator